Ferdows

Ferdows (1233-) was the Spymaster of the Kesranid Satrapy and a commander of High Chief Farrukhzad II of Kesranid Satrapy.

Biography
Ferdows was born in 1233 to a family of Sunni Muslim Persians that served High Chief Farrukhzad II of Kesranid Satrapy. He was made a commander of the Kesranid Satrapy as well as Farrukhzad's Spymaster, attending court at Urmiah, Azerbaijan (present-day Urmu, West Azerbaijan, Iran). Ferdows was given command of an army of 1,350 troops when the Ilkhanate invaded, and on 11 May 1263 he was defeated at the Battle of Shikhlar, losing his entire army to a force of 42,000 Mongols under Hulegu Khan himself.